2016 Delaware Code
Title 15 - Elections
CHAPTER 50. VOTING MACHINES
§ 5010. Voting machine out of order; procedure.

In case any voting machine used in any election district shall during the time the polls are open become injured so as to render it inoperative in whole or in part, the department shall substitute a perfect machine for the injured machine, and at the close of the polls, the record of both machines shall be taken, and the votes shown on their counters shall be added together in ascertaining and determining the results of the election. The department shall maintain and hold in readiness a reasonable number of extra voting machines to be supplied to election districts where a voting machine has become inoperative, and the department shall take reasonable steps to insure rapid delivery in such event.

15 Del. C. 1953, § 5015; 49 Del. Laws, c. 18, § 1; 50 Del. Laws, c. 172, § 13.;